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Etching titled the most effectual method of recovering a drowned person. The main image shows someone bent over at the bottom of a tree stump with no trousers on and someone with a pipe tube like instrument blowing into their bum

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Etching titled the most effectual method of recovering a drowned person. The main image shows someone bent over at the bottom of a tree stump with no trousers on and someone with a pipe tube like instrument blowing into their bum
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The Public Domain Review (publicdomainrev@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 01:20:31 JST The Public Domain Review

Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/humane-society/

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